The 1952 song-and-dance classic is the highest-rated musical of all time on the American Film Institute's Top 100 list, ranking No. 5 overall. As silent movies give way to "talking pictures," a ...(Read More)

A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes from San Quentin to search for the real killer. The stunning San Francisco locations and the stellar team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made ...(Read More)

Inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police was the first Asian detective hero in American literature. Earl Derr Biggers introduced the Chinese-born sleuth in 1925, and Hollywood soon capitalized ...(Read More)

Van Johnson (as a wisecracking PFC—as in "Praying for Civilian") stars in this rugged and unsparing 1949 film about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne ...(Read More)

One of the greatest Hollywood movies of all time, North by Northwest is a gripping romantic thriller that has you on the edge of your seat throughout. Cary Grant plays an ad man mistaken by ...(Read More)

An independently minded director with a penchant for making films about rebels, Nicholas Ray brought added drama to the life of Jesus in this 1961 epic. Ranging in time from the 63 BC Roman takeover ...(Read More)